Okanogan County residents receiving fraudulent calls

OKANOGAN - We have received multiple reports of county residents receiving telephone calls from a person claiming to be from the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office. These calls have requested the callers to call to (509) 414-7003 and is describing the matter as “very urgent”. I called the number to investigate and was sent to a voicemail prompt, requesting I leave a message.
The number is not associated with an Okanogan County location and instead shows it should be tied to the Chattaroy, WA area. In the voicemail prompt, the male does not pronounce Okanogan correctly and provides his name, which is not the name of any employee of the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office.
This number is not associated with Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office or any of our other Law Enforcement partners who utilize the Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center. The proper number to call is (509) 422-7232 which will not prompt you to leave a message.
Please do not provide any personal information to this number. If you are ever questioning if a call of this nature is for legitimate law enforcement business, call into the Communications Center to verify that it is valid.
Be sure to safeguard your personal information to prevent fraudulent activity. Thank you to those who called in to report the issue allowing us to make others in the community aware of the attempted fraud.